Medicines, Pharmacy and Prescribing Initiative of the Year

Medicines, Pharmacy and Prescribing Initiative of the Year
Medicines, Pharmacy and Prescribing Initiative of the Year
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Getting the right medicines to the right patients at the right time is key to improving outcomes, reducing waste, and making NHS resources go further. As the health system focuses on safer prescribing, reducing unnecessary medication use, and ensuring better access, medicines management is driving efficiency and innovation across care settings.

This award recognises NHS-led initiatives that are transforming medicines, pharmacy and prescribing - whether by tackling overprescribing, improving medication adherence, driving cost-effective prescribing, or optimising community pharmacy services within public and third-sector partnerships. By leveraging workforce changes, funding opportunities, and cross-sector collaboration, these projects demonstrate how smarter medicines use can unlock better outcomes for patients and the NHS alike.

Judges will look for tangible impact: cost savings, efficiency gains, or improved patient outcomes, alongside strong collaboration and innovation in medicines and prescribing.

Eligibility

Open to NHS organisations and wider public health and care third-sector organisations working in partnership with the NHS who have made real progress in driving transformation through medicines and prescribing.

Ambition

The challenge and context within which your project, person or organisation is set alongside your goals and targets whether quantitative or qualitative, and how this aligns with national priorities.

  • Describe the problem you set out to address and why transformation through medicines and prescribing was the right solution.
  • What was your vision, and what made it new or distinct from existing best practice?
  • How did the integrated care operating environment enable the initiative, and what targets or measures of success were set?

Collaboration

The stakeholders' involvement in co-designing and delivering the project. How have patients, staff at all levels, communities and other parties worked together to realise the outcomes?

  • How were patients meaningfully involved in the co-creation and delivery of the project?
  • Provide evidence of how partnerships and collaborative working across multidisciplinary teams, ICS partners and wider stakeholders were established and how buy-in was achieved.
  • If a third-sector or third-party partner was involved, describe how they worked with stakeholders to deliver results.

Impact

The measurable benefits delivered to patients, staff, your organisation or the wider system. Provide data and evidence showing improvements to outcomes, quality, access, equity or efficiency.

  • How has the initiative improved patient care, experience or outcomes? Include quantitative and qualitative data.
  • What have been the direct and indirect financial impacts, both short and long-term, and how has this contributed to cost savings and value for money?
  • What new processes, roles, technologies or ways of working have been introduced, and what other benefits, intended or unforeseen, have been realised?

Scale

How your work has been shared, adopted or replicated beyond your immediate team or organisation. This includes dissemination through publications, presentations, toolkits, partnerships or inspiring similar initiatives elsewhere.

  • How has this initiative been rolled out across your organisation or wider system?
  • What efforts have been made to share best practice with others across the NHS?
  • What evidence is there that this project has potential to deliver positive outcomes elsewhere?

Sustainability

The potential for the project/work to continue and create lasting impact. Evidence of how it can be sustained or built upon.

  • How does this initiative support wider goals relating to population health, reducing health inequalities and long-term system sustainability?
  • How is the work being embedded into business as usual, and what resource or funding is in place to sustain it?
  • What evidence is there that this initiative can be built upon or replicated by other teams or systems?

To find out more

Partnership opportunities:  Sponsorship Sales Team
Awards entry enquiries: Delegate Sales Team
Judging and event management: Awards Support